She's tried so hard to fit the mold To embrace the image she's been sold She'll binge and purge to fill her soul but she's wasting away He thinks the cure for his frustration lies In the battering of what he despises The children face his ruthless eyes They'll grow up blind with tears of rage In agony eternally but are we praticing our hunger well? Cowering in corners Can we find freedom beneath the blows? Crawling like roaches awaiting mercy from the merciless Decimated alienated with nothing left to lose Left to die alone he fights disgrace Not immune even to the fear he'll face As he comes to know that he's been condemned By those who profit from his pain Her golden years have rusted through And now there's nothing left for her to do But to demand the respect she longed for in her youth And hope that when her time comes She will not have died in vain Are the poisons we endorse worth more then our flesh? Is the only peace we'll know awaiting us in death? I've reached the limit there is nothing left to lose Yet a choice still remains a choice still remains to survive I claim this life I claim this hope I claim these horrors for my own I claim it all